So what does it mean for a given person like you watching this video right now to change your life in a year?

那麼，對於像你這樣正在觀看這段視頻的人來說，在一年內改變自己的生活意味著什麼？

Well, I think it mainly comes down to one simple idea, which is to go from where you are right now, point A, to where you wanna be 12 months from now, point B, as efficiently as possible, i.e. in as few steps as possible while enjoying the journey along the way.

嗯，我認為這主要歸結為一個簡單的想法，那就是從你現在所處的位置（A 點）到你 12 個月後想要達到的位置（B 點），儘可能高效，即儘可能少的步驟，同時享受沿途的旅程。

Now, this is simple, but not very easy.

現在，這很簡單，但並不容易。

And one of the tricky things is to actually figure out where you are right now and where you actually want to be.

其中一件棘手的事情就是要弄清楚你現在所處的位置和你真正想要的位置。

And that's what we figured out in the first two videos in this three-part video series.

這就是我們在這個由三部分組成的視頻系列中的前兩個視頻中發現的問題。

So in part one, we figured out what's our North Star and what is the sort of destination we wanna get to.

是以，在第一部分中，我們弄清楚了什麼是我們的北極星，什麼是我們想要到達的目的地。

And in part two, we tried to figure out where we are right now based on our past and present experiences.

在第二部分中，我們試圖根據過去和現在的經歷，找出我們現在所處的位置。

But now we're bringing everything down to just the 12 months time horizon, changing your life in a year.

但現在，我們將一切都簡化為 12 個月的時間跨度，在一年內改變你的生活。

And so we need to figure out how to go from A to B as efficiently as possible and while enjoying the journey along the way.

是以，我們需要想辦法儘可能高效地從 A 地到達 B 地，同時享受沿途的旅程。

And in this video, we're gonna go over three of my favorite methods for doing just that.

在本視頻中，我們將介紹我最喜歡的三種方法。

Okay, so the first method for changing your life in a year is the dreamlining method.

好了，在一年內改變生活的第一種方法就是 "排夢法"。

Now, I first came across this from Tim Ferriss' four-hour work week, but it's also an amalgamation of a couple of methods by Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar, who were like big OG productivity guru type people in like the 20th century.

我最初是從蒂姆-費里斯（Tim Ferriss）的《每週工作四小時》（four-hour work week）中瞭解到這一方法的，但它也是吉姆-羅恩（Jim Rohn）和齊格勒（Zig Ziglar）的幾種方法的混合體，他們都是 20 世紀的生產力大師。

And the idea behind the dreamlining method is that you basically ask yourself the question, in the next 10 years, what are the sorts of dreams that I might like dream for myself?

夢想規劃法背後的理念是，你要問自己這樣一個問題：在未來 10 年裡，我想為自己做什麼樣的夢？

And I really like this exercise because it encourages us to go outside of our usual day-to-day and actually think a little bit longer term.

我非常喜歡這個練習，因為它鼓勵我們跳出日常工作的圈子，從更長遠的角度思考問題。

And so here is the prompt that's worth thinking about.

是以，這裡有一個值得思考的提示。

In the next 10 years, what do you want to learn?

未來 10 年，你想學什麼？

What do you want to have?

你想要什麼？

Who do you want to be?

你想成為誰？

What do you wanna try?

你想試試什麼？

What do you want to see?

你想看什麼？

What do you want to do?

你想做什麼？

Where do you wanna go?

你想去哪兒？

What do you want to create?

你想創造什麼？

What do you want to contribute to?

你想為什麼做貢獻？

And what do you want to overcome?

你想克服什麼困難？

Now, what I'd really encourage you to do is pause the video right now with all of these 10 things on screen and just take 10 minutes.

現在，我鼓勵大家做的是，暫停螢幕上這 10 件事的視頻，只花 10 分鐘。

Set a 10 minute timer on your phone and just like write this down.

在手機上設置一個 10 分鐘計時器，就像寫下來一樣。

And the goal here is to go for quantity rather than quality.

這裡的目標是追求數量而不是品質。

Your goal almost is to just keep the pen going as much as possible and almost like write as much as you can without even taking the pen off the page.

你的目標幾乎就是儘可能多地動筆，幾乎就是能寫多少就寫多少，甚至不把筆從紙上拿下來。

Yes, you can type it if you want, but I actually think there's something even more powerful about writing this stuff down.

是的，如果你願意，你可以打出來，但實際上我認為把這些東西寫下來會更有力量。

And there is some evidence that writing things down by hand also kind of increases the pathways in our mind and all that fun stuff.

有證據表明，手寫也會增加我們的思維路徑和其他有趣的東西。

But I'd really encourage you to pause the video right now and please do this exercise.

但我真的很鼓勵你們現在暫停視頻，做一下這個練習。

I guarantee if you actually do this exercise, it will change something about your life.

我保證，如果你真的做了這個練習，它將會改變你的生活。

Okay, so I hope you've done that.

好吧，我希望你已經做到了。

But if you're struggling with this, then usually perfectionism gets in the way.

但是，如果你在這方面遇到困難，那麼完美主義通常會阻礙你。

A lot of people will think, oh no, but like now I have to think so hard.

很多人會想，哦，不，但就像現在，我不得不這麼努力地思考。

And really the point of this exercise is you don't wanna think too hard about it.

這個練習的真正意義在於，你不要想得太多。

You kind of know in your core and in your heart, what are some of these things that you want.

在你的內心深處，你知道自己想要什麼。

And if you let the head get in the way, if you let the mind think, no, that's not possible, no, I can't do that, no, I couldn't possibly have that, then that's sort of defeating the point.

如果你讓頭腦擋住了去路，如果你讓頭腦認為 "不，那是不可能的"、"不，我做不到"、"不，我不可能擁有"，那就有點失去了意義。

This is not a list you need to share with anyone.

這份清單不需要與任何人分享。

It's not a list you're gonna post on Instagram.

這不是一份你要在 Instagram 上發佈的清單。

It's just a personal list for yourself.

這只是你的個人清單。

And we're just brainstorming.

我們只是在集思廣益。

We're brainstorming some ideas here.

我們正在集思廣益。

So one way of thinking about this actually is that if there's anything in the next 10 years that you think you might want, or there's even a remote possibility that you might want it, you have to put it down on the list.

是以，有一種思考方式是，如果未來 10 年內有什麼東西是你認為自己可能想要的，或者甚至有微乎其微的可能性，你就必須把它列在清單上。

And I want you to imagine that if you don't put it down on the list, it is not going to happen.

我想讓你想象一下，如果你不把它寫在清單上，它就不會發生。

But if you do put it down on the list, then there is at least a possibility that it might happen.

但是，如果你真的把它列入清單，那麼它至少有可能發生。

So if you think, for example, maybe in the next 10 years, I might wanna write a book, maybe I've got 0.1% certainty that I might wanna write a book, that's enough.

是以，如果你認為，比如說，也許在未來 10 年裡，我可能會想寫一本書，也許我有 0.1% 的把握想寫一本書，這就足夠了。

Put down, write a book on your 10 year dream list.

放下，在你的十年夢想清單上寫一本書。

The other thing with this method is that don't worry about coming across as a materialistic twat, basically.

使用這種方法的另一個好處是，基本上不用擔心自己會成為一個物質至上的笨蛋。

Like, don't worry about it.

比如，別擔心。

We are taught in society that it's wrong to want things to have.

社會教導我們，想要擁有什麼是不對的。

But you know, when I do this dream thing, I wanna have a nice big house, I wanna have a loving family, and also, I wanna have a nicer car, I wanna upgrade to the Tesla Model S.

但是你知道，當我做這個夢想的時候，我想有一棟漂亮的大房子，我想有一個溫馨的家庭，我還想有一輛更好的車，我想升級到特斯拉 Model S。

It's actually totally fine to put down these sorts of materialistic things.

其實，放下這些物慾橫流的東西完全沒有問題。

Again, you're not sharing the list with anyone, unless you make a YouTube video about it.

再說一遍，你不會與任何人分享這份清單，除非你在 YouTube 上發佈相關視頻。

So don't allow yourself to be held back by the sphere of, no, it's wrong of me to want something that costs large amounts of money.

所以，不要讓自己被 "不，我不應該想要花大錢的東西 "這種觀念所束縛。

If you think you might want it, put it on the list, and you can work towards it.

如果你認為自己可能想要它，就把它列入清單，然後你就可以努力實現它。

And maybe as you get there, you'll realize you don't actually want it, but at least you're going in the direction that you've defined for yourself.

也許當你走到那一步時，你會發現自己其實並不想要它，但至少你在朝著自己確定的方向前進。

And there's a link down in the video description if you want a free Google Doc that has all these questions, along with my answers.

如果你想要免費的 Google 文檔，視頻描述中有一個鏈接，裡面有所有這些問題以及我的答案。

So for whatever it's worth, you can see what sort of things I wrote down in response to these questions.

是以，不管怎樣，你們可以看看我在回答這些問題時都寫了些什麼。

Now, especially in that category of things that you wanna learn, one of your 10-year dreams, as mine was, might be to learn computer science.

現在，尤其是在你想學的那一類東西中，你的十年夢想之一，就像我一樣，可能是學習計算機科學。

And if that's the case, you may like to check out the sponsor of this video, which is Brilliant.

如果是這樣的話，你可能會想看看這段視頻的贊助商，它就是 Brilliant。

Brilliant is an amazing online platform, and it's the best way to learn maths or computer science or data science.

Brilliant 是一個了不起的在線平臺，是學習數學、計算機科學或數據科學的最佳途徑。

And you can learn those things in a super fun and engaging and interactive way.

你可以用一種超級有趣、引人入勝的互動方式來學習這些知識。

Brilliant has thousands of lessons from basic to advanced topics, and they add new lessons in every month.

Brilliant 擁有從基礎到高級主題的數千節課程，而且每月都會增加新課程。

And recently, they've added a brand new course all about how large language models work.

最近，他們又增加了一門全新的課程，專門介紹大型語言模型的工作原理。

So you can really understand the science and the tech behind something like ChatGPT.

這樣，你就能真正瞭解 ChatGPT 這類產品背後的科學和技術。

Now, as I mentioned, my personal favorite courses on Brilliant are the computer science ones, because actually, when I was applying to med school, I was actually torn between medical school and computer science, because I was interested in coding.

現在，正如我提到的，我個人最喜歡 Brilliant 上的計算機科學課程，因為實際上，當我申請醫學院時，我曾在醫學院和計算機科學之間糾結過，因為我對編碼很感興趣。

And I went for medicine in the end, which I don't regret.

最後我選擇了醫學，我並不後悔。

But I always harbored this interest in computer science.

但我一直對計算機科學懷有濃厚的興趣。

And so the courses on Brilliant, the introduction to algorithms and how to program in Python, and the other stuff in the computer science series have been really nice in helping me scratch that itch to learn a little bit more about how computers and about how coding works.

是以，關於 Brilliant 的課程、算法入門、如何用 Python 編程以及計算機科學系列中的其他課程都很好地幫助我搔到了癢處，讓我對計算機和編碼工作有了更多的瞭解。

In particular, one of the new courses, Thinking in Code, is also really nice, because it helps you solve real-world problems using code, which is also a really cool way to level up your own general problem-solving abilities.

其中一門新課程 "代碼思維"（Thinking in Code）也非常不錯，因為它能幫助你用代碼解決現實世界中的問題，這也是提高你解決問題的綜合能力的一種很酷的方式。

Whatever your skill level, Brilliant customizes the content to suit whatever level you're at.

無論你的技能水準如何，Brilliant 都會根據你的水準定製內容。

So it figures out where you're at, and it gives you the relevant things for that ability level.

是以，它會找出你所處的位置，併為你提供與該能力水準相關的內容。

And so if any of this sounds up your street, then head over to brilliant.org forward slash Ali Abdaal, or hit the link in the video description, and that will give you a completely free 30-day trial.

如果這些聽起來很對你的胃口，那麼請訪問 brilliant.org forward slash Ali Abdaal，或者點擊視頻描述中的鏈接，你將獲得為期 30 天的完全免費試用。

And if you're one of the first 200 people to hit that link in the video description, you will also get 20% off the annual premium subscription.

如果您是點擊視頻描述中鏈接的前 200 名用戶之一，您還可以享受年度高級訂閱 8 折優惠。

So thank you so much to Brilliant for sponsoring this video.

非常感謝 Brilliant 贊助本視頻。

All right, so now that we've got our 10-year dreams vaguely pencil-sketched out, just a sort of sense of what I maybe might want in the next 10 years, let's now move on to method number two, which is bringing it down to a five-year time horizon.

好了，現在我們已經用鉛筆模糊地勾畫出了我們的十年夢想，也就是我在未來十年可能想要的東西，現在讓我們來看看第二種方法，也就是把時間範圍縮小到五年。

And method number two is the Odyssey Plan.

第二種方法是奧德賽計劃。

Now, this is an amazing exercise from the book Designing Your Life by Dave Evans and Bill Burnett.

這是戴夫-埃文斯（Dave Evans）和比爾-伯內特（Bill Burnett）所著《設計你的生活》一書中的一個精彩練習。

They are professors at Stanford Business School, and they have a class about how to apply design thinking to your actual life.

他們是斯坦福大學商學院的教授，開設了一門關於如何將設計思維應用到實際生活中的課程。

Now, the idea of the Odyssey Plan is that you have these three different prompts.

現在，"奧德賽計劃 "的理念是，你有三個不同的提示。

The first prompt is your current path, and the prompt is write out in detail what your life looks like five years from now if you continue down your current path.

第一條提示是你當前的道路，第二條提示是詳細寫出如果你繼續走當前的道路，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

So again, what I would really recommend you do is you pause this video, and you take action, and you actually spend five minutes just drafting out pen and paper, Apple Notes, whatever the hell you wanna use.

所以，我再次建議你暫停這段視頻，然後採取行動，花五分鐘時間用紙筆、Apple Notes 或其他任何你想用的東西來起草。

What does your life look like five years from now if you continue down whatever path you're already on?

如果你繼續沿著現在的道路走下去，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子？

And it's useful here to really imagine what does an actual day in the life look like?

在這裡，我們不妨想象一下，真實的一天是什麼樣子的？

What time are you waking up?

你幾點起床？

What are you doing for breakfast?

早餐吃什麼？

How long are you commuting to work?

您的通勤時間有多長？

Are you even working?

你還在工作嗎？

Like, what's going on there?

這到底是怎麼回事？

What are you doing at work?

你的工作是什麼？

What time is your lunch break?

你的午休時間是幾點？

What time do you get back from work?

你什麼時候下班？

What do you do in the evenings?

您晚上都做些什麼？

Like, what does a day in your life look like five years from now on your current path?

比如，在你目前的人生道路上，五年後你的一天是什麼樣的？

And obviously, you're not gonna know for certain, but you can make a pretty good guess depending on where you are in your life right now.

顯然，你無法確定，但你可以根據自己現在的生活狀態做出一個很好的猜測。

All right, now we come to prompt number two.

好了，現在是第二項提示。

So ignore everything you've written for your current path.

是以，請忽略你為當前道路所寫的一切。

You're gonna design a new path, and this is your alternative path.

你要設計一條新的道路，這就是你的備選道路。

Write out in detail what your life looks like five years from now if you took a completely different path.

詳細寫出如果你選擇了一條完全不同的道路，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

So I took some people through this exercise when I gave a talk at Google a few months ago, and all of them were software engineers, and so their current path was continuing down the route of software engineering, whereas their alternative path, what I said to them, is like, all right, guys, you're no longer allowed to do software engineering as a career, and you also get fired from Google, and you're not allowed to apply for another job at Google.

幾個月前，我在谷歌做演講時，帶一些人做了這個練習，他們都是軟件工程師，所以他們目前的道路是繼續走軟件工程這條路，而他們的另一條路，我對他們說的是，好吧，夥計們，你們不能再以軟件工程為職業了，你們也會被谷歌解僱，而且不能再申請谷歌的其他工作。

What does your alternative path look like in that context?

在這種情況下，你的另一條道路是什麼樣子的？

So that just hopefully gives you an idea of what we're talking about with current versus alternative.

是以，希望這能讓你瞭解我們所說的當前與替代方案的區別。

And again, I would recommend you pause the video, write it down, because I guarantee this exercise has the potential to change your life if you actually do the work.

我再次建議你暫停視頻，把它寫下來，因為我保證，如果你真的做了這項工作，這項練習就有可能改變你的生活。

And then once you've done that, we now have the most interesting question, which is ignore your answers to the first two prompts, the current path and the alternative path, and now write out your radical path.

一旦你完成了這些，我們就有了最有趣的問題，那就是忽略你對前兩條提示的回答，即當前路徑和備選路徑，現在寫出你的激進路徑。

Write out in detail what your life looks like five years from now if money and social obligations and what people would think were completely irrelevant.

詳細寫出如果金錢、社會義務和人們的看法完全無關緊要，五年後你的生活會是什麼樣子。

I would recommend you pause the video, think about it, write it down, and I guarantee if you do, it really has the potential to change your life.

我建議你暫停視頻，思考一下，把它寫下來，我保證如果你這樣做了，它真的有可能改變你的生活。

Now, the whole idea behind the Odyssey Plan is not that you're necessarily picking one of these or picking an amalgamation of them, but it just gives you permission to think a little bit more divergently, to think a little bit more broad, because all of us have a tendency to stick to the path that we're already on, and we fail to realize that actually, wherever you are in your life right now, even though it might not seem like it, you actually have loads of different options.

現在，奧德賽計劃背後的整個理念並不是說你一定要選擇其中之一，或者選擇它們的混合體，而只是允許你想得更多一些，想得更寬廣一些，因為我們都有一種傾向，就是堅持我們已經在走的路，而我們卻沒有意識到，實際上，無論你現在生活在哪裡，儘管看起來不像，但實際上你有很多不同的選擇。

If you're sitting here watching this video right now on some kind of device, you have more options than like 90% of the world's population, however grim you think your situation individually might be.

如果你現在正坐在這裡通過某種設備觀看這段視頻，那麼無論你認為自己的情況有多麼嚴峻，你都比世界上 90% 的人擁有更多的選擇。

Now, whenever I bring up this Odyssey Plan to people, there are always people in the audience that say, oh, but you know, what about these financial constraints I have?

現在，每當我向人們提起奧德賽計劃時，聽眾中總會有人說，哦，但是你知道，我的這些經濟限制怎麼辦？

What about these family obligations?

這些家庭義務怎麼辦？

And you know, this sort of, I can't just abandon my kids, can I?

我不能就這樣拋棄我的孩子，不是嗎？

And yes, I'm not suggesting you abandon your kids.

是的，我不是建議你拋棄孩子。

The current path is the path that you're currently on with all of the financial and family and all of these social obligations that you currently have.

當前的道路就是你目前所走的道路，你目前所承擔的所有經濟、家庭和社會義務。

The alternative path is, those obligations are still intact.

另一條路是，這些義務仍然有效。

It's just, you have to take a different path.

只是，你必須走一條不同的路。

But the radical path asks us to imagine a world in which, just like imagine, what if money were no object?

但激進之路要求我們想象一個世界，就像想象一樣，如果金錢不是目的呢？

What if you just had 100 million in the bank?

如果你的銀行裡只有 1 億美元呢？

How would you then be spending your time?

那你會如何打發時間呢？

What might that path look like?

這條路可能是什麼樣的？

And the whole idea behind the whole social obligation thing, it's not that you're gonna abandon your kids in this radical path.

整個社會義務背後的理念，並不是說你要拋棄你的孩子，讓他們走上這條激進的道路。

The idea is that you're not worried about what other people will think.

這樣做的目的是，你不用擔心別人會怎麼想。

Often, the fear of what others will think and the judgment they might bring on us holds us back from achieving the things that we actually want to achieve in life.

通常情況下，害怕別人的看法和評判會讓我們裹足不前，無法實現自己真正想要實現的人生目標。

Obviously, if you have kids, you've gotta deal with the kids.

顯然，如果你有孩子，你就得和孩子打交道。

Like, I'm not suggesting you abandon your kids.

比如，我不是建議你拋棄孩子。

Like, that's not the goal of this.

比如，這不是我們的目的。

The goal is to just break free of the limitations of what society is telling you you need to do with your life based on what you've already done up to this point.

我們的目標就是要擺脫社會的束縛，擺脫社會根據你迄今為止所做的事情告訴你的人生需要做什麼的束縛。

Now, I think a lot of people might think that the value of something like the Odyssey Plan is these alternative futures that you're imagining.

現在，我想很多人可能會認為，像奧德賽計劃這樣的東西，其價值就在於你所想象的這些另類未來。

But actually, for me, when I did this in 2019, the main value I got from it was recognizing what is the life I will have if I continue down my current path.

但實際上，對我來說，當我在 2019 年做這件事時，我從中獲得的主要價值是認識到，如果我繼續沿著目前的道路走下去，我將會擁有怎樣的生活。

And I actually wrote about it in my weekly newsletter that I've been writing every week since 2018.

實際上，我在我的每週通訊中也寫到了這一點，從 2018 年開始，我每週都會寫這篇通訊。

So this is what I wrote out when I was around 25.

這就是我 25 歲左右寫下的東西。

And this was about four something years ago.

這大約是四年前的事了。

And feel free to pause the video if you wanna have a read of it.

如果您想閱讀視頻，請隨意暫停。

But then this is what I wrote in my email afterwards.

不過，事後我在電子郵件中是這麼寫的。

When I was writing this out, I honestly felt a bit depressed.

寫這篇文章的時候，說實話，我感到有些沮喪。

I had a feeling of, is this really it?

我有一種感覺，真的是這樣嗎？

I guess it's similar to the classic midlife crisis that you're supposed to have when you hit 40, when you realize that your life is basically over.

我想這類似於典型的中年危機，當你到了 40 歲，你就會意識到你的人生基本上已經結束了。

Don't get me wrong, this future vision is a pretty idyllic life.

別誤會我的意思，這種未來願景是一種相當田園詩般的生活。

But there's nothing particularly cool about it.

但它並沒有什麼特別酷的地方。

It's just a very standard result of the path I'm currently on.

這只是我目前所走道路的一個非常標準的結果。

And if I think about the climb, the process of getting there, it's pretty pedestrian.

如果我想一想爬山的過程，到達目的地的過程，那是非常迂迴的。

I just have to do more of what I've been doing for the last few years, churn out more YouTube videos, launch a few more online courses.